Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Abstract

This qualitative research study seeks to examine definitions of Singapore music, music by Singapore composers and musics of/in Singapore through the eyes of tertiary music educators in a local institute of teacher education, and to determine pedagogical implications of such definitions in the space of the music classroom. Extensive informal interviews with seven tertiary music educators (key informants) serve as the methodological base for this phenomenological study. Findings suggest that music educators should give focus to the historical, socio-cultural and musical characteristics of the lived and living musical practices that comprise Singapore while being cognizant of contradictions brought forth by recent migratory flows and the emergence of a global city identity.

Keywords

Globalization identity multiculturalism Singapore

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

Campbell

P. S.

(2004). Teaching music globally. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Creswell

(2007). Qualitative inquiry and research design: Chosing among five approaches (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Folkestad

(2002). National identity and music. In McDonald

Hargreaves

Miell

(Eds.), Music identities (pp. 151–162). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Grosz

(2004). The nick of time: Politics, evolution and the untimely. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Hebert

Kertz-Welzel

(2012). Patriotism and nationalism in music education. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.

L. C.

(2009). Global multicultural citizenship education: A Singapore experience. The Social Studies, 100(6), 285–293.

Kuo

P. K.

(2002). The complete works of Kuo Pao Kun. Volume 7: Papers and speeches. Singapore: Global Publishing.

Lim

W. S. W.

(2011). We are Singapore: Wet market. Singlish, Kopitiam. In Lim

W. S. W.

Siddique

Tan

D. F.

(Eds.), Singapore shifting boundaries: Social change in the early 21st century (pp. 3–10). Singapore: Asian Urban Lab.

Määttänen

Westerlund

(2001). Travel agency of musical meanings? Discussion on music and context in Keith Swanwick’s Interculturalism. British Journal of Music Education, 18(3), 261–274.

10.

McCarthy (2009). Rethinking “music” in the context of education. In Regelski

T. A.

Gates

J. T.

(Eds.), Music education for changing times (pp. 29–37). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.

11.

Saldana

(2011). Fundamentals of qualitative research: Understanding qualitative research. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

12.

Schippers

(2009). Facing the music. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

13.

Schippers

Cain

(2010). A tale of three cities: Dreams and realities of cultural diversity in music education. In Ballantyne

Bartleet

B. L.

(Eds.), Navigating music and sound education. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

14.

Sing Singapore. (2005). Sing Singapore. Retrieved from http://www.nl.sg/details/www.singsingapore.org.sg.home.asp.html

15.

Spivak

G. C.

(2010). Nationalism and the imagination. New York, NY: Seagull Books.

16.

Vadaketh

S. T.

(2014). The end of identity? In Low

Vadaketh

S. T.

(Eds.), Hard choices: Challenging the Singapore consensus (pp. 59–78). Singapore: NUS Press.

17.

Volk

(1998). Music, education, and multiculturalism. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

18.

Willis

(2007). Foundations of qualitative research: Interpretive and critical approaches. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

19.

Xinyao Singapore! (2011). An introduction to Xinyao. Retrieved from http://xinyaoorganisationsingapore.blogspot.ca/p/introduction-to-xinyao.html

20.

Yin

R. K.

(1994). Case study research: Design and methods (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

21.

YourSingapore. (2013). YourSingapore. Retrieved from http://www.yoursingapore.com/en.html

My country,my music: Imagined nostalgia and the crisis of identity in a time of globalization

Abstract

Keywords

Get full access to this article

References